Clap... Clap...

Hok saw the Ezraa he was holding turning into a golden dust from legs to head and then into nothing. He sighed in annoyance. When he turned around, he found out that his buddies Baws and Rod were soaked in red, lying motionless on the metal floor with their red blood beneath them. Dead.

There was Ezraa, sitting on the metal floor, putting on his black hat with his hand kept on his bent knee. "Are you done acting foolish or you still want to display your extraordinary vampire speed. Come on, do it." he taunted the already angry Hok.

Hok looked at the camera in the foyer and shouted "Get your asses down here you thickos if you want to live and see the next coming hour!" 

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"Move guys, Hok was right, there's an intruder." One of the vampires told the others in the control center. He pressed a button on the control panel which projected his voice throughout the submarine.

"Security within the submarine should tighten, there's an intruder. I repeat, security within the submarine should be tightened. There's an intruder." he stood up as well and hurriedly followed the others after setting the large submarine in an autopilot.

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Hok sped again in a half second and knead the sitting Ezraa on the face. Ezraa turned into a golden dust and was now sitting on a container:

"Okay I see, you want many lives to die because of me right? in my hands. As you..." His words were interrupted by the kick landing on his neck. "...As you wish." he finished his words. They kept on doing the same thing: Hok madly attacked him and then he'll vanish into a golden dust.

The other vampires were here to help Hok deal with the wizard. There were accurately forty of them, all ready to give out all they got.

Ezraa when seeing them, he calmly told them "If you want to die, remain here and..." Hok madly attacked him again, interrupting him. "... remain here and die together with this fool and if you want to live a happy life, then I'm not in the position to deny you of that. The choice is yours. "He finished his words after reappearing on another metal container.

Clap... Clap...

Ezraa clapped his hands two times and then the lights in the antechamber went off, inviting darkness to accompany them:

"Hey what's happening here?"

"Who's in the brain control center?"

"Isn't there only an intruder, what's this nonsense?"

They were murmuring and asking each other what was happening while Hok was turning his head around searching for Ezraa.

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhh" a vampire hollered. 

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh" another one squalled.

Clap... Clap...

And the lights were back; showing what had happened to the already two more dead vampires, to show what the wizard did to them: one was sliced into two halves and the other one had his head, legs and hands detached from his thorax. It was a bloody sight and was a gruesome ending for them, unfortunately.

"No mercy for my enemies." the wizard with the most kind heart said. His eyes were cold and emotionless. Anyone that knew Ezraa, such as Enisa or Void, will never believe that this was the same Ezraa that could cry if a cat dies due to hunger. He was showing a different color he had which was buried down inside of him for a very long time. It's time for the color to resurface.

Hok had his eyes widened in horror. The greatest wizard has grown powerful and more atrocious than he knew he was. The forty reinforcing vampires were now thirty-eight 

Clap... Clap...

The lights went off again.

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh" a vampire hollered.

"Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh" another one squalled.

When the lights were back, two more vampires were dead — making the reinforcing vampires number to reduce to thirty-six. One had his head smashed into his thorax and the other one had his intestinal organs well kept by his side as he lay down lifelessly in his own blood with his eyes closed. 

Hok was doing his best during those times that the lights went off to give Ezraa some beating but the wizard was simply turning into a golden dust. Offing the lights was only to make things look more creepy as the vampires  could still see in the dark.

"Who wants to stay and die?" Ezraa asked them as he clapped his hands twice, offed the lights and killed two more, making them thirty-four. When the lights were back, only Hok, two more dead bodies and ten other vampires remained standing in the foyer. The remaining twenty-four vampires ran away as the lights lastly went off. Bunch of cowards.

"The ten of you want to die together with Hok?" Ezraa chuckled. Amused. "That's very loyal of you." he said as he sat down on a tall container that wasn't any far away from the remaining vampires, with his right hand on his bent leg.

"Hey stupid vampires GET YOUR RUMPS OVER HERE!" They all heard someone from the underground shouting.

"ENOUGH EZRAA. STOP KILLING MY MEN!"

"What are you doing with the hybrids?" Ezraa squinted his eyes, "I need an answer. What are you doing to the hybrids?" he asked for the second time when Hok didn't answer him and was only panting in frustration:

"You are getting yourself into something you can't get out of, Ezraa. One of the queens of mermaids is working with us. Just imagine your faith if she knows what you did to us that is working with her."

"Working for her or working with her? Hey listen Hok, I can kill you and your men in a millisecond, take away the hybrids with me and she can't forever find us in this world. As you can see, living in Nodem city for many years has helped me grow powerful. Now, stop working with her and listen to why I'm here."

"NEVEEEER!!!" a vampire shouted. Ezraa clapped his hand once, the lights went off and when they returned, the shouting vampire was dead. "Any objections?" he asked them as he looked at them one by one, "Good, take me to where the hybrids are right now."

"You will regret this Ezraa." Hok said as he walked out of the antechamber. There was no point in fighting someone as strong as that wizard. Trying it was just a way for one to waste his time." mark my words, you. will. regret. this."

Ezraa pretends like he didn't hear what Hok was saying and calmly said "Someone should please volunteer and take me to the hybrids."

"Okay!" six of the vampires retorted in unison. Ezraa smiled when he realized what he just did. They have learned their places.

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The mermaids were ill-omened. They were doomed for their souls would be consumed. They should have simply swam away after seeing what Theogo has become but being social super creatures,their instincts told them to avenge for their own kind that was accidentally injured.

{Destructive lava consumption}

The mermaid that was injured became the mad demon's first victim. The mermaid's body was covered in lava from head to toe. That was confusing because the water was proving nothing in affecting how the lava was consuming each and every inch of the mermaid. It screeched till its voice was no longer making sound. Its face was evidently proving the pain it was feeling and it became the only source of light in that gloomy water.

Its legs and arms were spread aside like a star and the mad demon swam to its place, leaving the basement. The mad demon looked at the remaining nine mermaids with a devilish simper on its rocky lips. They were all visibly shaking and weren't able to move due to the fear they were feeling.

"Lettss begin" He said. Keeping his right hand on the lava covered mermaid, the mermaid shone brighter. It screamed instead of screeching with its body twitching and twisting.

{You are consuming a soul.}

The mad demon felt a sweet feeling moving around his body. His bones felt stronger,his eyes Shone brighter and his skin became more rocky as he consumed the soul. Everything about him was improving as his horns grew a bit taller and his muscles tightened and bulged more. 

Taking his hand off the mermaid's chest when it shone no more, the mermaid was finally dead and it sank deeper into the dark sea. Its eyes had no eye balls and it can be safely called a human skeleton with scaly skin.

{Soul successfully consumed}

{A soul has been kept in your soul store.}

{Available souls:1}

{Consume four more souls to return to normal.}

The mad demon moved to the next mermaid of his interest.

{Destructive lava consumption}

Ezraa was looking at what the mad demon was doing through a window. "What have you become Theo? ...." he asked as he couldn't believe his eyes. "What have you become? ...."

[N]: Not every mad demon will have his prey shining brightly as the prey's soul is being consumed. Such a thing happened when Theogo was consuming a soul because of his connection with the lava element.

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Written by Jaxmaa, Published by W.E.B.N.O.V.E.L 

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